Click the stars to watch pronunciation guides for all the sounds we learn in Robin Class.

Below we have sound mat documents that we encourage you to use at home to support any writing. Also the overview document for what is happening in EYFS and KS1 this half term, and overhead slides from the information sessions that run throughout the year.

In Reception we learn the phase 2 and 3 sounds.

In Year 1 we learn the phase 5 sounds.

Useful words we use in phonics - 

Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound that can be identified in words. We also use the term ‘sound’ but your child may use the word ‘phoneme’. There are 44 phonemes/sounds in the English language.

Grapheme: A letter or group of letters used to represent a phoneme in writing.

Segmenting/Decoding: To break down (‘sound out’) a word by identifying the sounds

Blending: putting sounds together to make a word (eg c-a-t cat)

Digraph: A grapheme made of two letters that make one sound (eg the ‘sh’ in ‘shop’.)

Trigraph: A grapheme made up of three letters that make one sound (eg the 'igh' in night).